THE ULTIMATE CHEAP, EBAY, AMAZON AMR500 BLOWER TEST. FULL RESULTS-AIRFLOW, TEMP & POWER CONSUMPTION

What's going on? We take an AMR 500 supercharger, run it with an LS and measure the

airflow

, then dramatically increase the flow, then run it up and measure the

temp

erature. How much

power

can the little AMR 500 really handle and how much

power

is needed to drive hello everyone Armor Bracket I'm on West Tech Performance welcome to the channel today it's all about this guy. I'm talking about the little AMR 500 supercharger. I get the follow up questions Richard how much power can it make how much boost can it make and how much power does it take to spin this baby.

Well, there's only one way to find out: make my own Dyno

blower

. That's right, you heard me right. I'm making a Dyno supercharger. I've taken an LS Engine, we're going to spin this supercharger, we're going to monitor the

airflow

going through the

blower

, we're going to monitor the charge

temp

erature coming out of the blower and we're also going to monitor how much power it takes to drive. the blower is correct, the most extensive

test

ever done on an AMR 500 supercharger in order to

test

the flow of the AMR 500 supercharger, the first thing I had to do was build a bracket to mount the supercharger to the LS engine, get a hole saw to cut this.

At the top you want to make the opening larger than that. I also welded in a larger inlet and outlet for the AMR 500 supercharger to improve airflow. Once I installed the tensioner with the correct size belt, we were ready to test the L33 test engine it was equipped with. a new delete truck, Norris cam, a quick intake manifold, 102 millimeter throttle body and long tube headers, we ran the engine as is without the supercharger to establish the engine's power output before adding the blower , thanks, so we set up our blower, let's do it. the blowers mounted on our L angle that discharge down here have our inlet pulley up here Mount our mounting holes down here, so now we're going to run the belt installer tensioner over, we're going to attach our air gauge to this side, let's see what It happens, well because the strap is such a tight fit that you can see that it won't just continue, what we need to do is undo our stand a little bit, let it swing down, put a belt on it and put it back in place, put our bolt on it and lift it up so this will be the first official boot, let's see what happens, thanks foreigner, so I readjusted the tensioner.

I moved it to put more tension on the belt. We'll see what happens after testing the airflow of the AMR 500 supercharger with the The factory inlet and outlet are basically opened so they flow freely. What I did was install a section of pipe with a restrictor so we could produce boost. I then monitored the boost pressure and charge temperature so we could see how well the AMR 500 was doing. it actually runs fine, we have all the reference runs with our factory intake and discharge, we have boost, we have charge temperature, We have a lot of stuff, so now is the time to switch to the high flow stuff and see if we can improve. the rate of airflow going in and out of this little AMR 500.

Let's swap it out, okay, now we'll take out the factory inlet and outlet and upgrade them and see if we can get more flow. I'm going to remove the entry. Let's reconfigure it for the new intake, as you can see we installed the new intake on the supercharger and as you can see it's a little bit larger than the one we removed from the outside diameter. This one is smaller than the ID of the others, so this should improve our airflow, but only the meter will know for sure, so we have everything connected. Infinite discharge, our idler fan in place, we have the belt on, this is our new setup, everything we did, go ahead and we'll show you a photo. get rid of a short section, basically, an adapter that went from this to the smaller inlet, turn it on and see if there's any weird air filter left, just turn the thing on, just open it up, now we're going to close it. put the same restrictor we had on the smaller inlet and outlet and find out what it does to boost we are also monitoring the temperature and pressure alright guys now it's time to go over all the data generated when we ran the AMR 500 supercharger on the The Dyno motor was now not hooked up to the motor obviously and we were using the motor to boost it but it wasn't producing any boost so we were just testing the airflow and this is what happened first: We set up the supercharger with the Inlets and stock compound outlets, the small restrictive ones, and then we ran free flow so it didn't produce any boost, we were just processing air from one side of the blower to the other side of the blower and you can see we had a flow of air maximum. of 215 CFM but we're going to get into something that I don't think is totally accurate, but this is what happened when we ran with Boost when we put our restrictive intake on it basically to help it produce boost, we put a restrictor on it. with the boost, I meant that the airflow dropped as expected, to a maximum of 210 CFM and we have about a 10 to 12 CFM drop and this is about five pounds of boost, so when you're running the boost at free solo place. flowing and obviously less air is going to flow and that is something totally normal that we would have expected.

The only thing I want you to look at is the way this airflow curve extends. I suspect that's belt slippage on the top and especially after showing you the next one, so this is what happened when we ran it with the super Richie air intake systems, you know, the larger intake and exhaust, this is what happened when we didn't run any boost just free flow inlet and outlet with the new super Richie's inlet and outlet airflow increased dramatically as we would have expected 267 CFM and 5500 RPM by the way that's 18 a little over 18,000 RPM on the fan speed and it's still going up, which should continue that way for at least a while, maybe we can.

I might get up, let me know in the comments. Could we reach close to 300 CFM? But this is what happened as a backup. However, when we did another pull, the airflow decreased so it dropped to 256 CFM, so it dropped about 10 CFM in one pass. for the other this is probably due to the temperature in the fan, but this is what happened when we did a run while this thing was producing boost like it did before on the original inputs and outputs, even with the larger inputs the airflow was reduced to 239 CFM, but judging by the shape of the airflow curve again, what do you guys think in the comments?

Let me know if this is a function of this thing just supporting airflow because it has to produce boost or are we seeing maybe some belt slippage there. The only way to know for sure about belt slippage would be to basically put a toothed pulley on it. We had a good turnbuckle. It didn't look like it was slipping. We didn't see any dust on the strap, but let me know. what do you guys think, well guys this is interesting tell me what you think please let me know in the comments what you think and why this particular thing happens but what we did was measure the boost pressure produced by the supercharger and the way when we got it.

This to produce boost is basically I just put an intake or discharge restriction on it in the same way that when you put a blower on an engine it's actually a restriction because that's what boost is, it's a restriction measure, so all we did we put a piece of hose with a little restrictor coming out of the blower to help it build pressure so we could figure it out? Basically, I wanted to know if the airflow and power

consumption

changed when we were generating boost as a PL. Instead of just processing all the air, we put a restrictor on the outlet side of our stock inlet and outlet that came with the supercharger and ran it up to 5,500 RPM, which is 18,000 RPM, and this was the boost pressure it produced.

Dadaist. our restrictor that we used, started at about two and a half pounds, increased to a maximum of 5.8 pounds and then decreased which I find surprising, let me know in the comments what you guys think, do you think that's belt slippage or it's just a function of the airflow drop as well on this blower with this type of boost pressure, but here's the interesting thing when we ran the super Richie Inlet system, we know it dramatically increased the airflow quite a bit, but the boost was lower, so again I'm asking you, I didn't think this was going to happen given the fact that we use the same restrictor, basically the blower processes more airflow, why is the boost pressure lower?

Do we have some kind of leak? On the discharge side we just put a hose in there and I didn't see any leaks. We were monitoring the boost pressure at the same location. We had our temperature probe in the same place. Let me know what you guys think. How the hell could we see less? Boost pressure of a system that is processing more airflow. Now take a look at the charge temperature offered by the supercharger again. We're running between five, five and a half six pounds of momentum at the peak and you can see the changes in momentum. curve provided and this is the charge temperature associated with those boost numbers, so again we run our original input and output with a supercharger, we run it up to 5,500 RPM, which is a little over 18,000 RPM fan speed and then We put a restrictor on it. and then we monitor the temperature using a temperature probe where we are producing boost, so we had a lower boost at the bottom and subsequently a lower charge temperature and then a higher temperature at the top.

It started around 123 degrees and rose to a peak of 169 degrees with the standard input and output and this is what happened when we ran Richie's large inputs and outputs. I'm going to go ahead and move up here, you can see the bottom one is the larger inlet and outlet, the more the momentum flows. was lower, as we saw in the Boost curves, the temperature was much lower, we're looking at 102 or 103 down here and then around 137 at 5500 RPM, significantly lower again, although the Boost was lower. low again let me know in the comments what you think the larger inlet and outlet seemed to be better all around which is not surprising they give the inlet side a positive portion of the supercharger very very critical Okay guys the last thing we're going to look at is the power

consumption

or how much power it takes to actually drive the supercharger, they both don't produce boost they just spin and flow freely and process a lot of air and then also when you we've put a restrictor in and made it make boost so this is the power output of our 5.3 liter it's a quick intake l33 big throttle body long tube headers a Brian Thule truck Norris camshaft this thing made 440 horsepower of force and 412 or 13 foot-pounds of torque now we're not going to spin the blower at 6,500 RPM, but we'll build it, we'll be able to compare it at 5,500 RPM and see how much power it took to actually drive the supercharger in these two conditions , so here's our non-boost producing supercharger with the super Richie Inlet and Outlets um.

At 5500 RPM, our test engine was making 418 horsepower and the supercharger wasn't producing any boost, just processing air. 390 horsepower, so it took 28 horsepower to drive the supercharger under these conditions, so let's take a look and see what happened when we were actually producing. The boost on about this was about three or four pounds, which made it take a little more power. Power output was reduced to 386. The biggest difference was about seven horsepower, they're in the middle so it took a bit. a little more power to make it produce boost instead of just processing air like we were hoping, but I'm really curious to see what Kenny Bell comes up with after we send this blower to his Blower Dyno and get the thing

full

y working .

To eliminate any slippage, we'll put a six-root belt on it, spin it at various RPMs and figure out what the power consumption is and what the airflow is and everything, and we'll be able to see. how does that data correlate to this, guys, what do you think of this Richie Dyno super blower? Something amazing using the LS engine to power our little AMR 500 supercharger. We got a lot of interesting data using our five or six different adapter plates. We can run the Big Air turbine and taper it down to the little tiny flow hole that we have here on the inlet and outlet side of thesupercharger.

We can get some good data. We have airflow data. We open it. We ran it doing boost, we got charge temperature data, we also got data on how much power it takes to drive this little supercharger, but I have a surprise for you, as I promised at the beginning. I'm going to take this supercharger and mail it to Sweden where the guys at Kenny Bell will put it on their official Dyno blower and we'll find out how its data compares to the data generated on the Richie super Dyno blower that will be a follow up. video, so be sure to tune in.

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